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MODERN TIMES REVIEW: The Roots of Madness
With the precision of a rhyme… A relentlessly uncomfortable truth to face… It reclaims exactly what the West has so consistently expunged.
For Swiss documentary filmmaker, author and producer Edgar Hagen, the cinematic form is both a channel for socio-political engagement and an exacting challenge. (…) His new film, The Roots of Madness, may be his most arduous yet. It sets out to reckon with how the West fuelled the very radicalism in the Middle East it vowed to combat, and then evaded responsibility for the refugee crises that followed.
May 1, 2026, by Sonya Vseliubska